Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- VIDEO: NRA Members Claim Obama Doesn’t Believe In 2nd Amendment, But Can’t Explain Why – So keep those cards and letter and checks coming!
- ‘Green Lantern’ Increases VFX Budget as Hollywood Trends Towards Deadline Disasters – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews – The problem seems to be basically that too many of these movies depend on “effects never seen before,” rather than “a really good action movie with great effects.”
- What costs more in 2011? – For the most part, the things where prices went down are manufactured goods that can be reduced in cost through outsourcing to sweatshop labor overseas. Which is very nice when you go to buy a PC or iPhone or shirt, but not quite a sustainable (or moral) model.
- Canada’s Health Care: An Alternate Universe | Common Dreams – The biggest problem with a single-payer system is that the folks — companies and individuals — who find the current US system most highly profitable would lose much of that profit. And they’re willing to spend quite a bit of it to make sure that doesn’t happen.
- What the Donald really thinks: noreply@blogger.com (digby)
- Andrew Breitbart’s Latest Garbage Gets a College Professor Fired – This is why we can’t have nice things.
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